Le Cap Bon, jardin de Carthage : recherches d'épigraphie et d'histoire romano-africaines : 146 a.C.-235 p.C.

The success of romanisation of the Cap Bon area can be explained to a large extent by the importance of the Punic heritage and its preservation by Rome. The expressions of this romanisation are social, cultural, judicial, economic. Yet, the expansion of the Roman civilisation in the Cap Bon area of Africa Vetus did not just reach a simple height under the Antonins and the Severes. Its reasons can be found in the Caesar-Augustan era with the establishment of the frameworks necessary to the blossoming of Africo-Roman civilisation, the cities. 

The most important phenomenon of this civilization, as the historians of Roman Africa keep reminding us, is the incredible urban density observed everywhere in Africa which would have to be explained, once again, by the importance of the pre-Roman past. From this merging between the Libyo-Punic and the Roman civilisations, arose, under the Empire, an “original Cap Bon”.